Have you ever suffered a crisis of faith, and questioned your beliefs?

Question

What caused it to happen?

How did it resolve itself?

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Answer 1

I think we all do. In college is when it happened for me. I stopped going to church for a few years (except Easter, of course!) and I did a lot of experimenting with...uhhh...."substances". Depression resulted and in the depths I did not think that God could hear me.

Once I got my head clear and resumed a prayer life and went back to Mass...it turns out that He was there all along!

Answer 2

It would have to be when I left Mormonism. It was a huge struggle for me since I had many friends and a calling in that church & felt that I belonged. But, I began to discover some of the teachings didn't conform to what I read in the Bible. That really disturbed me. I sought help from the bishop, but was only told to seek the Lord by prayer and fasting. I took the advise, but it only increased my doubts.

Long story short, I ended up leaving the Mormon church (a very painful & emotional choice, but one I had to make for reason & conscious sake). It has taught me never to be afraid to question what I believe or what I've been taught to believe. Truth is nothing to be ashamed of or afraid of. It's actually something that you should pursue in every area of ones life...not just spiritually.

Now, I'm at peace with my life and my new found faith. And I never regret what I went through in the past. God, in His divine providence, used such an experience to make me into the guy I am today. And I am not finished growing, yet. I look forward for more trying times. But, I know that they'll be good for me and just make me better than what I am right now.

Answer 3

When i got old enough to seek truth and use logic, rational thinking, and intelligence, and realized that all the scriptures for every religion is 95% bullcrap.

Resolution- i became Buddhist for a while (it's a philosophy and way of life more than religion, so it worked better) and i came through at some point forming my own system of beliefs, found a state of inner peace and feel the best i've ever felt.

Find out who you are. It doesnt matter which road we take as long as we all get to the right place.

Answer 4

Faith is basically believing something for no good reason so I don't see how bringing that to an end can be considered a crisis.

Did you consider it a crisis when you learned that Santa Claus was not real? Did you fret over it and look for advice on how to convince yourself that he was real in spite of the lack of evidence and the many contradictions in the Santa story?

The crisis is continuing to shut down your brain and accept a bunch of half baked ideas on the nature of the world because you are too lazy to think for yourself.

If however you believe there's something noble or virtuous or grand in believing something with no evidence then it doesn't much matter what you believe does it? You can just latch on to any of the 101 flavors of established religions or make up one of your own.

Answer 5

Yes My life has not been a bed of roses and I have been very disappointed with how my life has turned out, not at all like I planned and I question why this is so. At different time things have got very hard for me and that is when I have lost my faith. Fortunately I have found comfort in praying to god and I need that.God is very much like a friend who never says the wrong thing, but just listens.

Answer 6

Oh, yeah. I set myself up big time. While I was dating, I found a girl who seemed to click with me. I made a point, however, of NOT telling her that I loved her for a long time. I wanted to be sure, and to 'clear' it with God first. So one night, after a date, I asked God if she was 'the one', if she was 'safe' for me to get serious about. I could have sworn He told me 'yes', and a great feeling of joy filled my heart. Some months later, we became engaged and eventually married.

But it turned out that we had some very basic, and major differences. She lied about her level of sexual libido, and was generally a lot more selfish than she had appeared while we were dating. After years of dealing with these and other problems, I finally decided that something was desperately wrong. But how was this possible? I'd received GOD's endorsement! None of this should be happening! So I went to my parish priest. He was hardly a help. Everywhere I looked, I received no answer to my question. HOW can this be happening? How could God be wrong? Did He LIE to me??? WHY???? After much searching, I began to consider the idea that God was merely an illusion, a mass deception that had caught the entire human race up in.
I quit going to church, and began ignoring God.
But I couldn't put Him entirely out of my mind. And I felt a deep sadness that such a beautiful idea was wrong.
Eventually, I shared my thoughts with a Christian coworker. She suggested that I visit her church, and talk with her pastor. Reluctantly, I did. To make a long story short, this pastor helped me work through my problems, and restored me to fellowship with God. I'm much happier now.

Answer 7

Yes, when for one thing you see co-faithers are cruel because of that faith and being close minded because of that. And questioning my belief is not really my belief rather what has been given by society and culture and questioning that is very natural for everyone . Always questioning mind wants to know.
Resolving it happens by growing up from close minded to openness and acceptance of fact that are and has been may beliefs and we shouldn't bod-er each other for that.
After all humanities is the key word.
Any belief system which maintain that (HUMANITY) deserve to stay otherwise is history.

Answer 8

Yes! I think I maybe losing my faith. I had this happen to me once before. I grew in my Beliefs. and I know I WILL do It again.

The main thing now is I am still a new Christian and I have made mistakes in my life. and I am always being remined of them by my Parents Friends the one thing I am happy about is the gift God gave me 7 months ago. My Baby Daughter. He will help me again. He will show me He Loves me. and I will have peace again.

Answer 9

Everyone should question their faith. If you don't then your faith isn't as strong as you might think. You need to question it, to make it stronger and renewed. For all those people who have, they know what I mean. Everytime you resolve the questioning your faith is much stronger. That goes for wheather your questioning lead to a new faith or just renewed.

Answer 10

Yes, even the best of the prophet or apostle, of whom Jesus said there is none of those born of woman who is greater than him, who is John the Baptist also doubted about Jesus, and asked his disciples to go and asked Him personally if He was really the Messiah that they were waiting for.

Yesus everyone who really come under His banner will come to the situation when Satan seemed to be at his best. But if we do not release our hold on Him, there is no reason why we should all become overcomers.